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I used to try to convert articles to ePub so I could read them later, but over time, I've reverted to using Instapaper for that purpose. (Aside: Paper is perhaps a more robust alternative, although I haven't made the switch yet myself. I noticed that Firefox seems to use Paper for its in-browser reader.) In any case, Instapaper works well enough with Code4Lib Journal articles. With Instapaper, if anything is garbled and I still want to read it, I just go to the original and read it there instead. I also use an IFTTT applet that reads RSS feeds and saves articles automatically to Instapaper. That's pretty sweet. However, to actually answer your question, I came across a browser extension called EpubPress -- https://epub.press/ -- that looks pretty good. I opened up 6 articles from the current issue of Code4Lib Journal and followed the EpubPress wizard to select all of them to convert to ePub. It made a nice little booklet with a table of contents. Graphics and even tables were handled pretty well. Code was a bit of a mess (long lines wrapped awkwardly), but probably good enough. I guess if I cared enough, I might try editing them in Sigil. Tom On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:34 PM Sylvain Machefert < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello, > summer is fast approaching and with it is coming time to catch up with > C4L journals issues I have missed. I was looking for a way to get the > latests issues as epub and so far I have not found an easy way to do it. > > I have found the discussions on code4lib wiki that date back to 2014 : > https://wiki.code4lib.org/C4lMW14_-_Code4Lib_Journal_as_epub and the > associated github repository > https://github.com/jtgorman/c4l-journal-as-epub but the issue27.epub > example is generating errors in Calibre. > > The ruby code at https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub seems to > work better as the downloadable epubs at > https://github.com/LouisStAmour/journal2epub/downloads work fine but > they stop at issue 12, and as I am not really into ruby I have not > been able to install it. But as the latest update is from 9 years ago, > I am not sure it is a good idea to investigate into it. > > So to summarize : is anybody there reading C4L journal as epub? Would > you please share your method to get properly formatted epub from an > issue? > > Best regards, > Sylvain >